Rumburk railway station
| Rumburk | |
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 Entrance building, street side
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| IBNR | 5400227 |
| opening | January 16, 1869 |
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| City / municipality | Rumburk |
| Okres | Okres Děčín |
| region | Ústecký kraj |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '24 " N , 14 ° 32' 53" E |
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| List of train stations in the Czech Republic | |
The Rumburk railway station is a railway junction and border station in the north of the Czech Republic . It is located in Rumburk ( Rumburg ) at the address Máchova 492/30 near the German border.
Names
- until 1919: Rumburg
- 1919 to 1938: Rumburk / Rumburg
- 1938 to 1945: Rumburg
- since 1945: Rumburk
history
The station was built between 1868 and 1869 on the northern outskirts of the city by the Bohemian Northern Railway as the end point of the Bakov – Rumburg railway line from Bakov to Northern Bohemia . The first train reached the new station on January 16, 1869.
As early as 1869 there were considerations to continue the route in the direction of Bautzen and Spremberg along the Spree in order to create the shortest connection between Berlin and Vienna. The Austrian state government approved the construction of this route for the Bohemian Northern Railway on July 17, 1871. Saxony, on the other hand, rejected a route that would have been in direct competition with its own railway line in the Elbe Valley. On September 29, 1869, a contract was signed between Austria and Saxony, which provided for at least the construction of a railway line from Rumburg via Georgswalde-Ebersbach to Löbau . Construction began in 1871 and was completed two years later. On November 1, 1873, the new line to Georgswalde-Ebersbach was opened.
On October 29, 1902, the North Bohemian Industrial Railway to Nixdorf was opened, which required extensive extensions to the railway systems.
With the nationalization of the Bohemian Northern Railway in 1908, the Rumburg station was also transferred to the Imperial and Royal Austrian State Railways . After the First World War , the station was part of the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railway ČSD.
During the Sudeten crisis , thousands of Sudeten Germans fled the area around Rumburk after September 15, 1938 by train to neighboring Saxony. A week later, the station was cleared by the Czech railway workers, so that from 23 September 1938 the railway traffic was stopped. As a result of the Munich Agreement , the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over the station on October 19, 1938, which from then on belonged to the Dresden Reichsbahndirektion.
After the end of the Second World War, the station was returned to ČSD in 1945, but cross-border traffic was no longer available for the time being. It was not until September 30, 1952, that freight trains ran across the state border again, and passenger traffic to Ebersbach was resumed on July 1, 1991. When the traffic on many branch lines in the Czech Republic was supposed to be stopped in the autumn of 1997, the railway workers in Rumburk also went on strike for the maintenance of the surrounding railway lines. Cross-border passenger traffic to Ebersbach was discontinued in 2010, but continuous train operations between Rumburk and Sebnitz (Sachs) were resumed in July 2014 after an almost 70-year interruption. In 2015, ČD Cargo abandoned freight traffic from Rumburk and the stationed locomotive of the BR 742 was withdrawn. In 2017, the track systems as well as the control and safety technology were extensively modernized. This was accompanied by the dismantling of various tracks that were no longer required.
